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New Stroop Paradigm Reveals How LLMs Retain Lexical Priors

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Researchers have developed a Stroop-style paradigm to investigate how language models handle conflicting instructions. Their experiments, conducted across 11 open-weight models, reveal that lexical priors persist through override rather than being replaced. Activation patching on aligned models pinpointed a specific source-position triplet crucial for binding these conflicting pieces of information. AI

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New Stroop Paradigm Reveals How LLMs Retain Lexical Priors

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Han-yu Wang ·

    Priors Persist Through Suppression: A Stroop Paradigm for Lexical Override

    arXiv:2606.07555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Glossaries, technical specifications, and system prompts routinely ask language models to use familiar words in unfamiliar ways. When this works, the lexical prior persists through override rather than being replaced: it continues…

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